2010-07-12, 10:27 PM
Marston Wrote:The only forum I could see this automated poopy working well in is General Maple and that's it. Open up your little statistics notebook and I'll bet that most necroposts occur there anyway. Anywhere else just doesn't make enough sense.
I do agree heavily on this. When I saw the statistics that the Maple and Social section made up ~78% of the necroposts, it would indeed make sense for these sections to be subject-able to the Necropost restriction save for the incredibly low traffic sections of the Maple section: these discussions rarely last long and rarely have repeat topics/questions that can easily happen months later, unlike say the Training Center. Besides, while it's not 100% only having to deal with ~22% of the original number of necroposts is still a vast improvement than how it is now. Mods only having to deal with ~1/5 of the Necropost reports compared to before, to me, would be a fantastic improvement to the site. Obviously going for 100% is touchy because the other sections can easily receive a new post weeks later only to find out they have to make a new thread because of the rule.
If anything, A&E, MHM, Extractions, and everything from the Training Center to World Forums/Marketplace should be exempt because it's nowhere near as active as the other parts of the forum, especially when compared to General Maplestory and the Social Section (Funhouse included, especially the Funhouse). That way an overwhelming majority of necroposts will be stopped, and people won't be complaining about the less active sections getting previously large/useful/good threads locked and having to nag a Mod to reopen it.
Things under Main should probably be subjected to the Necropost restriction because these parts are almost always talking about current news/discussion that would be old in a few days or confusing/useless to a person who hasn't been keeping up with Nexon/Southperry news all the time. Okay then, that's now about ~82% of all Necroposts that will be killed in opposition to ~78% leaving only 18% of Necroposts as before to take care of. Even better!
Or how about this, create a poll listing all the sections that can be subjected to the 21 day lock, see which sections get the highest votes, and base judgment/action from there.